History of the Bible

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(WRLD) Offered Intermittently. This course explores the history of the peoples, places, ideas, and texts that combined over hundreds of years to produce the Bible as a single book, and examines the influence of this book on the development of Western thought and culture. The course offers an introduction to the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament and the ancient world of its authors from literary, historical, social, anthropological, and archaeological perspectives.